Jeffrey Yang

Jeffrey Yang is the author of four poetry books: Line and Light; Hey, Marfa (winner of the Southwest Book Award and a 2014 New York Times Best Book of the Year); Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium (winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s Sidetracks (chosen as a 2024 Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, and The New Yorker) and his autobiography City Gate, Open Up. He has edited the poetry anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas and Time of Grief; a volume of Walt Whitman’s writings, The Sea Is a Continual Miracle; an expanded edition of Mary Oppen’s Meaning a Life, and, with Natasha Wimmer, the anthology Some Kind of Beautiful Signal. His essays have appeared in magazines such as The Paris Review, Chicago Review, Harvard Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture. Yang has received fellowships from the DAAD artists-in-Berlin program, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Omina Freundeshilfe Foundation. His collaboration with Susie Ibarra “In Light of Water, Birds Take Flight” was performed with a participatory orchestra at Dia Beacon. He is the Editor-at-Large for New Directions Publishing, and for over a decade was also a senior editor at New York Review Books.

楊君磊著有四部詩集:《線與光》(Line and Light)、《嘿,馬法》(Hey, Marfa)、《消逝之線》(Vanishing-Line)及《水族館》(An Aquarium)。其中,《嘿,馬法》榮獲美國西南圖書獎(Southwest Book Award),並獲《紐約時報》評選為2014年度最佳圖書之一;《水族館》則獲得美國筆會/喬伊斯·奧斯特韋爾詩歌獎(PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award)。其譯著包括北島詩集《歧路行》(Sidetracks)及自傳《城門開》(City Gate, Open Up)。《歧路行》獲《時代》雜誌(TIME)、美國國家公共電台(NPR)及《紐約客》(The New Yorker)共同評選為2024年度最佳圖書之一。

楊君磊曾編輯多部重要文集,包括詩歌選集《鳥獸與海洋》(Birds, Beasts, and Seas)、《悲傷時刻》(Time of Grief),以及華特·惠特曼作品選《海洋是不斷延續的奇蹟》(The Sea Is a Continual Miracle);他亦編訂了瑪麗·奧本(Mary Oppen)回憶錄《生命的意義》(Meaning a Life)增訂版,並與娜塔莎·維默(Natasha Wimmer)共同編輯選集《某種美麗的訊號》(Some Kind of Beautiful Signal)。

他的散文與評論曾刊載於《巴黎評論》(The Paris Review)、《芝加哥評論》(Chicago Review)、《哈佛評論》(Harvard Review)、《紐約客》、《詩刊》(Poetry)以及《文山評論:文學與文化》(The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture)等刊物。

楊氏曾獲德國學術交流總署(DAAD)柏林藝術家駐村計畫、蘭南基金會(Lannan Foundation)、美國國家藝術基金會(National Endowment for the Arts)及奧米納友誼基金會(Omina Freundeshilfe Foundation)頒授創作獎助。

他與作曲家兼打擊樂家蘇西·伊巴拉(Susie Ibarra)合作的作品《在水光之中,群鳥振翅飛翔》(In Light of Water, Birds Take Flight),曾於紐約迪亞:比肯藝術中心(Dia Beacon)以參與式樂團形式演出。

目前,楊君磊擔任美國新方向出版社(New Directions Publishing)特約編輯(Editor-at-Large),並曾於《紐約書評叢書》(New York Review Books)擔任資深編輯逾十年,是當代英語世界兼具創作、翻譯與編輯實踐的重要文學人物。